Gernika Begins in Bilbao

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GERNIKA BEGINS IN BILBAO

Koldo Serra wheel with the Church of San Anton background movie that recalls the bombing

BILBAO. What are thin actresses, by God. We are in April 1937 and waist Ingrid Jonsson Garcia would go through one of those who tyrannize wasp waists female silhouettes of the time. Wearing a camel coat long flight, with a heavy Contax camera around his neck, the revelation of 'Beautiful young' actress plays a Swedish journalist sent to the Spanish Civil War. He leaves the theater with James D'Arcy, the official unforgettable defeat of Tom Pullings 'Master and Commander'. This is cinema.

Yesterday, against their will, Bilbao back to April 1937, on the eve of the bombing of Gernika to herself in the eponymous film directed by Koldo Serra. The dock has fallen Ibeni 78 years in time. The team had to have some rain, as mandated by the spring in Bilbao, but the storm of wind and water that devastated the city on the south became a quagmire the film set. To the extent that one of the kids was sick extras for caladura.

A couple of Republican soldiers, with handles, shoulder harness and Mauser, check stinging cigarette while walking beside amarteladas couples 'casheros' wool berets. Children play war with heavy sticks for guns under the watchful eye of a boat gudari with cap. Offstage, Carmen, production, run to buy thick waterproof boots to nearby shops while her fellow task one free hot coffee are cast in the near Botxo Kafe. To give credibility to the scene, the asphalt has been replaced by tons of earth. Over the hours, the floor is a swamp.

Inside the Hika Ateneo, film people have built their command headquarters in rear and shelter. Here lie the costumes, the utillería and hairpieces. Also, scripts where this revisitation of the bombing of Gernika is told through the eyes of the protagonist Henry Howell, British reporter transcript of George Steer, who first reported the bombing Gernika after seeing a burning ember because of the 5,472 firebombs A kilo dropped by Junkers, Dornier and Heinkel German. "The character is a mixture of Hemingway and Layer. Gernika accompanies him an editor-censor the press office of the Republic, who plays the actress Maria Valverde, "explains Jose Alba, Sin Films and one of the producers of this film manages a budget of six million euros, higher figures for national development.

The scene was filmed yesterday by the Atxuri station, and in which about 150 people participated, will be the opening sequence of the film, which introduces the characters. Just after leaving the theater, the actors get into a black Ford that will lead to tragic desolate glare of Gernika. It was Monday, market day, and about 6,000 people swarmed the Gernika. With warning systems (lookouts with flags at Mount St. Mary and the wailing sirens of the factories), bombing 'only' caused 'between 180 and 190 dead ", according to the latest research.

In the same space as yesterday visited the mayor Ibon Areso, stumbled with producer Daniel Dreifuss. For him, the film is nothing but a tribute to the memory of his grandmother Irma, a German Jew confined to the concentration camp of Gurs (France), where he met and tried to Republicans and Basque refugees fleeing Franco. Daniel grew up in Uruguay listening to the stories of those hardships, the memories of that disaster that Winston Churchill described as "experimental horror" and that German Lufwafe then exported to Europe.

Tribute to the memory of Irma

"My grandfather Max Dreifuss wrote a letter from the Gurs camp. Was one of the first to denounce the persecution and deportations, sadness and despair suffered by the Jews, "explains Daniel Dreyfuss, also producer of 'No', with Gael García Bernal film about the Chilean plebiscite of 1988 that ended dictatorship, turned into the first tape of that country nominated for an Oscar for best foreign film. "My line of work is to find the universal in the particular and the history of Gernika allows me to do. It is a story of ideological persecution in 1937, suppression of democracy and the rights of people, something that is now happening in the world. Remember jihadist Islamic State "alert.